the new york times' Ben Sisario writes:
"It’s becoming pretty difficult to get excited when a band announces it will be performing one of its old albums in concert from beginning to end."
"Once a novel idea — flattering the artist as creator of a “classic” but also forcing him to recreate a fan’s experience of it — it has descended, as all good and novel ideas must, into a familiar pitch to sell concert tickets. Sure,
Steely Dan’s “Aja” and Slint’s “Spiderland” are worthy, but is Thurston Moore’s “Psychic Hearts,” played at last year’s All Tomorrow’s Parties festival, anybody’s idea of an enduring classic?"
Yes.